Overall I don’t think the specific concern (“if doctors would be required to accept forced-on-us healthcare plans”) would become a huge problem. I know what this argument is getting at though. Medicare doesn’t pay doctors as much as private insurance. If their was a government option, it would pay as much as medicare. Cuts in medicare spending are a constant threat to control costs. “Cuts in medicare spending” translates exactly to paying physicians less for specific services. I’d be a lot more concerned if the government option was still part of the bill. Read more...(261 words, 1 image, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)
This is an example of one of the worst conditions ever. Parts of the brain that allow a person to move are damaged, but parts responsible for sensation and cognition still function to a degree. It can be hard to diagnose, but this fMRI stuff will probably make the diagnosis a lot easier. As far as the ethical stuff is concerned…we’re standing on the doorstep of a catastrophe in the healthcare system, directly related to rising costs. This condition is rare compared to the number of people who truly become vegetables because of less selective brain damage. I cared for armloads of them at St. Joe’s. It costs ungodly amounts of money to keep someone with either condition “alive.” Costs have to be cut somewhere. Metaphorically speaking, we either cut mammography for 40 year old mothers with early breast cancer, or we stop keeping vegetables “alive,” even if there is the off chance they have a spark of consciousness somewhere. Read more...(307 words, 4 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
Let’s start with the semantics – my favorite part of politics [ facetiousness detected ]. We are talking about the FairTax Act. If we judge this Act by the standards held by recent legislation – like the American Clean Energy and Security Act, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – I have to assume that the FairTax Act taxes people unfairly and is not specific to America. Read more...(1680 words, 6 images, estimated 6:43 mins reading time)
I’m not a big believer in stimulus. But if you give their economic theory the benefit of the doubt – Keynesian economics – it doesn’t matter. The bills the Dems have passed that they are calling stimulus doesn’t follow the model. Most of the money is used to pay for government – rather than cut the fat like everyone else is doing – and infrastructure projects. Neither do the job Keynes calls for, which is to replace the lost purchasing of the population that’s stowing their cash. Read more...(516 words, 2 images, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)
Bank of America is having difficulty finding a CEO who is willing to ruin his/her career being vilified by the Obama Brigade and otherwise not being allowed to compete in the banking industry.
Indeed something will likely get passed, regardless if it’s some diluted ineffective waste of clean paper, or something that makes everything worse. But the market won’t destroy healthcare, it will just keep cutting people out, tightening standards, and reducing services to stay viable. Medicine improves, and so becomes more expensive every day. And people seem to be getting fatter and more prone to disease every day – yet are living longer and longer. Hell – today I was at Meijer and saw three of those scooters coming down the isle. And they weren’t piloted by old people and weren’t a group. Or maybe it was four… Read more...(888 words, 4 images, estimated 3:33 mins reading time)
We will get healthcare reform. If Congress can’t destroy it first, the market will destroy healthcare for us. Something will happen. Read more...(212 words, 2 images, estimated 51 secs reading time)
As most of our loyal readers know, I have a number of issues with Obama. And, most of my posts here concerning his policies are negative – although fair. But I have to take his side on something that happened during his interview-athon last Sunday. Read more...(334 words, 1 image, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)
Well, the G-20 conference took place in Pittsburgh last week. And as usual there were plenty of protesters – although not near the traditional number – and they came in all type. My favorites are the regular anti-capitalists. Read more...(679 words, 4 images, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)
Overall I don’t think the specific concern (“if doctors would be required to accept forced-on-us healthcare plans”) would become a huge problem. I know what this argument is getting at though. Medicare doesn’t pay doctors as much as private insurance. If their was a government option, it would pay as much as medicare. Cuts in medicare spending are a constant threat to control costs. “Cuts in medicare spending” translates exactly to paying physicians less for specific services. I’d be a lot more concerned if the government option was still part of the bill. 
This is an example of one of the worst conditions ever. Parts of the brain that allow a person to move
are damaged, but parts responsible for sensation and cognition still function to a degree. It can be hard to diagnose, but this fMRI stuff will probably make the diagnosis a lot easier. As far as the ethical stuff is concerned…we’re standing on the doorstep of a catastrophe in the healthcare system, directly related to rising costs. This condition is rare compared to the number of people who truly become vegetables because of less selective brain damage. I cared for armloads of them at St. Joe’s. It costs ungodly amounts of money to keep someone with either condition “alive.” Costs have to be cut somewhere. Metaphorically speaking, we either cut mammography for 40 year old mothers with early breast cancer, or we stop keeping vegetables “alive,” even if there is the off chance they have a spark of consciousness somewhere.
Fairness
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Bank of America is having difficulty finding a CEO who is willing to ruin his/her career being vilified by the Obama Brigade and otherwise not being allowed to compete in the banking industry.
that makes everything worse. But the market won’t destroy healthcare, it will just keep cutting people out, tightening standards, and reducing services to stay viable. Medicine improves, and so becomes more expensive every day. And people seem to be getting fatter and more prone to disease every day – yet are living longer and longer. Hell – today I was at Meijer and saw three of those scooters coming down the isle. And they weren’t piloted by old people and weren’t a group. Or maybe it was four… 
We will get healthcare reform. If Congress can’t destroy it first, the market will destroy healthcare for us. Something will happen. 
Well, the G-20 conference took place in Pittsburgh last week. And as usual there were plenty of protesters – although not near the traditional number – and they came in all type. My favorites are the regular anti-capitalists. 
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